Username checks out, I guess

but it reads like it was written by an undergrad translated from Russian by ChatGPT

The Google page the article links to pretty explicitly states that data will not be used for training. Isn’t this just the cross-google integration that lets calendar add events from mail?

I read ice giants and thought I’d missed a headline today

That looks more like a Terminatrix

«topwar.ru»? Seriously?

Idiot

That’s not just azure, though - it’s AWS and google cloud as well

Oh, I’m not advocating the policy of the current US regime. I also mostly agree with the first paragraph of your original comment. I don’t really see how the US can get out of the current slide towards overt fascism. My point is that China is not a great alternative, and that the values that are currently being trampled in Washington would have been preferable. I hope the EU can emerge as an alternative, but they have their own fascist problem as well, so I’m not too optimistic.

Yeah. If you read my comment carefully, you’ll find that I mentioned the US very few times. And, while there’s certainly a lot to criticize about American capitalism, especially of late, I think I prefer the culture with the deeply-embedded idea of personal liberty. Mind you, I wouldn’t want to live in either country

Countries don’t have friends, they sometimes have aligning interests. Also, China is a repressive dictatorship.

Ah, but does Trump understand this?

China is also our problem. And not your friend.

Nice try Khamenei

Rapid Dragon wouldn’t work with Tomahawks afaik, it was developed to launch JASSM/CMMT etc. according to the webs.

The solution is of course to give Ukraine JASSM-ER.

I don’t know any specifics, but it’s reasonable to assume that Bulgaria had Russian hardware at the fall of the iron curtain, that they had local maintenance facilities and skilled workers, and that they saw no immediate need to replace that hardware with western equivalents. As long as the servicing and parts manufacturing is local to Bulgaria or even Eastern Europe, this shouldn’t be a security problem at all.

I’d guess that as a former Warsaw Pact member Bulgaria would have a bunch of Russian hardware still in service. Then they need a maintenance facility. Hopefully they don’t depend on Russia for parts, though…

I think this version is usable against terrestrial targets? Wasn’t there an article the other day about a factory being attacked with one of these?

It’s an unmanned system, there is no crew.

Fuck off, fascist enabler.